ORONO – Former University of Maine women’s basketball standout Kim Corbitt has been hired as an assistant on head coach Ann McInerney’s staff.

Corbitt and Colleen Carbone, who was a graduate assistant at New Hampshire last year, will serve as assistant coaches for the 2005-06 season.

As a senior last season Corbitt earned the America East Player and Defensive Player of the Year awards, the first time one player won both awards in the same season. She was the Defensive Player of the Year in 2003.

Corbitt started all 28 games last season while helping the Black Bears to a 20-10 record as well as the regular-season league title and a berth in the WNIT. She led the team with 120 assists last season and ranks third in school history with 436. Corbitt also earned the 2004 America East Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete Award and graduated this month with a degree in biological engineering and mathematics.

Her primary duties will be exchanging film with opponents and helping to coordinate practice schedules.

“Kim Corbitt is an icon up here,” said McInerney, a former Merrimack coach who is in her first season coaching at Maine. “She was an outstanding point guard and was a coach on the court for her teammates. She knows a lot about this program and her knowledge of it will help us continue to build upon the success Maine has achieved in women’s basketball.”

Carbone played for McInerney on a Merrimack squad that went 31-4 and advanced to the NCAA Division II Final Four. Her duties at Maine will including organizing and scheduling opponents.